03-05-2019, 12:52 AM
Every company I've ever worked at cuts corners about something because there is more work than qualified workers or because the cost of labor is too high. Why are we assuming automation is replacing a person's job and not doing what isn't being done? It's possible some jobs will become less important, like a cashier, but that's more about the death of retail as a job than anything.
What do you think is going to happen? Assume AI takes x% of the jobs - then what? Poverty gap widens? Or do the billions who are already in poverty have access to opportunities they may not have otherwise had? We already have more people on this planet than we have jobs that pay a living wage, so how much worse does AI really make it? I'm not suggesting we go for it because the world is already fucked; I'm saying the privilege of growing up in U S of A has us worried about unskilled jobs that are a pretty small portion of the global workforce. Most jobs are physical labor and humans will be better at those for quite awhile. Once we have Rosie from the Jetsons, then people should be scared.
What do you think is going to happen? Assume AI takes x% of the jobs - then what? Poverty gap widens? Or do the billions who are already in poverty have access to opportunities they may not have otherwise had? We already have more people on this planet than we have jobs that pay a living wage, so how much worse does AI really make it? I'm not suggesting we go for it because the world is already fucked; I'm saying the privilege of growing up in U S of A has us worried about unskilled jobs that are a pretty small portion of the global workforce. Most jobs are physical labor and humans will be better at those for quite awhile. Once we have Rosie from the Jetsons, then people should be scared.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth